The fossil water in Libya is primarily located in four vast underground basins. The largest of these, the Kufra basin near Egypt, spans an impressive 350,000 square kilometers – imagine an ...

Libya’s groundbreaking Great Man-Made River Project stands as a testament to human ingenuity in one of the driest, most challenging environments on Earth. This colossal engineering feat involved ...

A monument made from a section of pipe from the Great Man-Made River, Tripoli, Libya. The pipeline is constructed from sections of 4-metre diameter conduit, and the network spans around 1,750 miles.

Fossil water is trapped deep underground in aquifers beneath some of world's driest places. ... Some fossil water, like the aquifer in Libya, has been carbon dated to 40,000 years ago.

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Aquifers can also extend for many kilometres or be localised in certain areas. Water gets into these aquifers in different ways. Some are filled by new rainfall, others hold old, or ancient, rainfall.

With no natural rivers, nearly all fresh water for irrigation is sourced from underground aquifers. In 2020 and 2021, Libya experienced longer than usual heatwaves and lower than normal rainfall.

More than 5,000 people have died and 10,000 are believed missing after Storm Daniel dumped so much rain on Libya’s northeast that two dams collapsed sending water flowing into already inundated ...

Many aquifers are quickly disappearing due to climate change and overuse, ... In 12 percent of the aquifers the team studied, water levels are now dropping by more than half a meter per year.

Haider al-Saeih, head of Libya's center for combating diseases, said in televised comments Saturday that at least 150 people had suffered from diarrhea after drinking contaminated water in Derna.